ideal
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Yes, chatbots are unusually persuasive, and writers pick up model biases without even knowing it, but the baseline isn’t some platonic ideal of a perfectly objective journalist.
From Slate • Apr. 17, 2026
Elite teams managed by him maintain an ideal combination of intelligence within structure, and he has players capable of improvising solutions when patterns break down.
From BBC • Apr. 17, 2026
In my ideal therapy room, plants live in the room when no one else is in it.
From Los Angeles Times • Apr. 16, 2026
“For a long time, I believed in an ideal, a national, sovereign, civic Hungary,” he wrote in a Facebook post.
From The Wall Street Journal • Apr. 13, 2026
For Aristotle, the ideal science consisted of a chain of logical deductions from incontestable premises.
From "The Invention of Science" by David Wootton
Vocabulary lists containing ideal
Frindle
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The Boy Who Harnessed the Wind
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"The Witches" by Roald Dahl, Chapters 1–5
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